Hershey Medical names new chair of pediatrics

Hershey Medical Center has named Dr. Leslie Walker-Harding chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Pediatrician-in-Chief of the medical center.

Walker-Harding is currently the chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Seattle Children's Hospital and professor and vice chair of faculty affairs in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, according to a news release issued by Hershey Medical Center.

She earned her doctorate of medicine from the University of Illinois School of Medicine, her pediatric residency training at the University of Chicago and her adolescent medicine fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, the news release said.

"I was drawn to Hershey due to the world class status of both Penn State Children's Hospital and Penn State College of Medicine," Walker-Harding said in the news release. "I am impressed at how, even in these changing times, Penn State Health has not wavered in fulfilling its mission to improve the lives of children, adolescents and their families from central Pennsylvania and beyond."